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Queer Cinema: Some Basic Strategies for Research

Queer Cinema: Some Basic Strategies for Research. Queer Cinema: Basic Strategies for Research. (Wonder Bar, 1934). Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library. Writing About Film…. 100+ Years of Movies & Movie Writing. Writing About Film: The Basic Questions.

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Queer Cinema: Some Basic Strategies for Research

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  1. Queer Cinema: Some Basic Strategies forResearch

  2. Queer Cinema: Basic Strategies for Research (Wonder Bar, 1934) Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library

  3. Writing About Film… 100+ Years of Movies & Movie Writing

  4. Writing About Film: The Basic Questions • What types of writing are out there? • What are the sources of writing? • Who’s doing the writing? • Where do you find the stuff?

  5. Writing About Film… Scholarly Pop • Reviews • Critical analysis • Biography • Reviews • Pop talk • Biography Industry Fan • Box office and market info • Production info • gossip • Gossip • Fantasy & fetish • General weirdness

  6. What are the Sources for Film & TV Scholarship and Research? For Reviews?

  7. Film Scholarship/Film Reviews Sources • Books • Journals, Magazines, Newspapers • Reviews • Critical/ScholarlyArticles • Chow, Rey. "Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together." Camera Obscura 09-30-1999 N.42 p. 31-40 • Stuart, Jan. "Happy Together/Chunguang Zhaxie." (Review) Advocate, n746 (Nov 11, 1997):67 (2 pages).

  8. Film Scholarship/Film Reviews Sources • Books • Journals, Magazines, Newspapers • Reviews • Critical/ScholarlyArticles • Web Sites (the good, the academic, and the ugly) • Other online databases

  9. Scholarly/authoritative works • Pop schlock and fan works • How Do You Tell em’ apart? • Author’s credentials/affiliations • Publisher (e.g. BFI, AFI, University Presses vs pop press; juried vs pop journals) • Scholarly apparatus and sources: notes, bibliographies, other documentation • If they’ve been widely cited by other scholars

  10. Writing About Film… Scholarly Who’s doing the writing? • Film Studies • Women’s Studies • Ethnic studies • Queer Studies • Literature • Area Studies (i.e. areas of national focus) • Others…

  11. Scholarly Books (Some generalizations) Films w/in last 5 years or so Older Films More LESS Books about directors and genres Books about individual films (xcept the biggies)

  12. Critical/Scholarly Journal Articles • Current Films (fewer) • Older Films (more) • Found in: • Film studies & scholarly (print & online) • Journals in various disciplines (print & online) • Web sites (occasionally… academic and commercial databases) (Bringing Up Baby, 1938)

  13. REVIEWS • Current Articles • Retro Articles • Found in: • Popular, news, & fan journals and newspapers (print & online) • Film studies & scholarly journals (print & online) • Industry journals (e.g. Variety) • Web sites • Fan and enthusiast sites • Commercial sites (e.g., studio sites, video distributors) • Academic (or at least academically-minded) film sites

  14. How do you locate this stuff? Indexes & Abstracts (oooh baby!) Pathfinder Inventory of Books and Journals (what the Library owns) Journal articles by discipline

  15. How do you locate this stuff? Journal Articles/Reviews Online & Print Indexes and Abstracts • Film-related (not many) • General news • Literary • Other disciplines: e.g. Women’s Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies (Morocco, 1930) Jumping Off point for Finding Online Indexes: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/reviewslist.html

  16. Reviews: How to Look em’ Up • Search index using title of work (as a phrase) • You can also include director • Try using and review • e.g. Happy Together and review • or • Happy Together and Wong Kar-wai and review

  17. Once You Find a Citation, How Do You Find the Article? • Some indexes provide holdings info [UC eLinks] • Some indexes link tofull-text If neither…use Pathfinder

  18. full text! holdings!

  19. How to Begin searching for books and/or articles on a research topic? Before you click: THINK • Formulate your search in terms of: • KEY WORDS andSYNOMYMS: • --Looks for words anywhere in record: title, subject, abstract and full-text (if avail) • PHRASES: • --Looks for words in the exact order entered

  20. How to Begin? Before you click: THINK Formulate your search in terms of keyword and key phrases: The representation [reflect* portray* depict*] of gender [sex*] and masculinity[masculin*, male, men] in the films films [cinema, movie*] of Rainer Fassbinder. **** Truncation varies from db to db: * # ? emigra* = emigrant, emigrants, emigrate, emigration

  21. What to do if nothing is turning up • Tweak your topic: Broaden it / select a different angle • Rethink your search strategy (new keywords, new concepts, etc.) • Bail out completely and choose another topic

  22. Film Reviews and Criticism • http://www.lib.berkeley. edu/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html • Bibliographies on various film topics and individual films compiled by MRC (includes bibs for genres, filmmakers, national cinemas, and individual film).

  23. …being driven over the edge by your research? Call me: Gary Handman 643-8566 ghandman@library.berkeley.edu Review this presentation at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/instruction.html

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